I'm adding this technique under the Attaining Lucidity section as an indirect method of attaining lucidity, because the easier a person is able to get to sleep, and the more dreams they are able to have, the more chances they will have to become lucid.

I discovered the below technique by accident about 3 weeks ago, while working on strengthening my eye muscles, and have been using it ever since to fall asleep, not just once a night, but several times a night as I am constantly awakened by my dreams, after which I get up and record them. And it works. The technique should either put you to sleep, or else put you in such a relaxed state that you can experience a WILD from it.

Here's the technique, something so simple I'm surprised it took so long for me to discover it.

1) Lay down in bed with your eyes closed and thiink about how comfortable your bed feels, allowing your
entire body to sink into the bed. After a minute or two open your eyes and begin the following exercises.
2) Look up, then look down. That is one repetition. Do 29 more for a total of 30.
3) Look to the right, then to the left. That is one repetition. Do 29 more for a total of 30.
4) Rotate your eyes in a complete circle to the right. Do a total of 30 of these.
5) Rotate your eyes in a complete circle to the left. Do a total of 30 of these.

6) As an alternative to exercises 4 and 5 you can try doing figure 8's with your eyes as this combines exercise 4 and 5 into a single exercise. One thing I've found that works well with this exercise when the eyes are closed is concentrating on different chakras while doing the movements, concentrating on the top of the head or crown chakra or behind the eyes or brow chakra at the top, concentrating on the throat area or throat chakra while in the middle of the figure 8, and then concentrating on the heart region or heart chakra at the bottom of the exercise.

(The movements seem to work best if done slowly and deliberately in a stretching type of movement, moving the eyes as far up and down, right and left, etc, as possible).

By this time you should have either fallen asleep, or else be in a very relaxed state in which your mind is very still and you are able to drift off to sleep.

At this point you can either do nothing, and drift off to sleep, or continue the eye exercises, doing them with your eyes closed. If you are doing the eye exercises with your eyes closed, it can be helpful to visualize the number you are on when counting, and visualizing the word DEEPER at the other end of the count movement.

If at any time you should begin to see images, shift your concentration to the images to strenthen the images and draw yourself into the scenery.

I would be interested in knowing what kind of experiences other people have with this technique, and any suggestions they might have on using it to become lucid.

If the technique does not work for you, don't fret. You will at least have strenthened your eyes by doing it.